Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Edwin Peary who set out from New York on July 6, 1908 thereby conceiving success and bringing it forth exactly nine months later to the day when he came in sight of the North Pole. Only one of his original party remained with him- a Negro - and four of the 22 Eskimos...
Cried he: "The spectacle of the franc at a fifth of its pre-War value is as pitiful a sight as the War-maimed poilus one encounters in the streets! . . . Salvation lies in a new currency, in severing all ties with the past! Already Belgium, Austria, Hungary and Russia have struck new coins† .... The best reason for reviving the ecu is that it would stop our people from thinking in terms of francs and would abolish forever the present distressing comparison of salaries and prices with those of pre-War days. . . . The franc, even...
...circus proprietor's daughter, attempted to fake a tight-rope act, got nibbled by monkeys, ran away, helped the circus proprietor's daughter to marry a competent tight-rope walker. Then the little tramp, gay and forlorn, walked away down a road until he was out of sight...
...many marks of permanency. Among them, the fact that its growth is not local, but nation-wide, seems to lend credence to the belief that additional courts would not go unused. It would be agreeable if Harvard, with the solution of some of her other athletic problems already in sight, should be able to satisfy a young but lustily growing need...
...King has overstepped the prerogatives of his crown, but rather that he has slighted them, and by so doing has injured their prestige. For the Ulemas are deseribed as religious leaders among the Moslems, and their sense of the fitness of things has been rudely jarred by the sight of King Amanullah wearing a white top hat in preference to the traditional fez or (as the conservative news report adds) its "Afghan equivalent...